MojNews-According to reports, terrorist attack in southeast of Iran killed 5 security forces. 

Local security officials said the attacks that started late at night on Wednesday hit two police and military posts in the cities of Rask and Chabahar. 

A soldier, a security guard,  a Basij volunteer force and 2 police officers are among the martyrs while five terrorists were killed in exchange of fire.

Clashes continue in three parts of Baluchestan in the cities of Sarbaz, Rask and Chabahar, and the terrorists are completely surrounded by security forces.

Majid Mirahmadi, Iran's Deputy Interior Minister for Security and Police Affairs said on early Thursday that the simultaneous terror attacks in Chabahar and Rask were foiled due to the alertness of security and law enforcement forces.

In Rask, the terrorists have completely defeated and are surrounded by security forces, he said adding that the terrorists who attacked the IRGC headquarters in Chabahar were defeated as well and took refuge in a nearby building, and four terrorists are under siege.

Mirahmadi also said that the terrorists had taken a citizen of Chabahar hostage, and the operation to save the life of this hostage is underway with full caution.

According to some sources, the terrorists were affiliated with Pakistan-based Jaysh al-Adl terror outfit. 

The Jaysh al-Adl terror group has conducted a number of similar attacks in the past months, some of them deadly. The group claimed responsibility for an attack in December on a police station in the city of Rask that killed at least 11 police officers. On January 10, another attack by the group on a police station in the same city killed a policeman.